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Rain, Riots and Rumours - Filming A Scandal in Belgravia on location

(There are a couple of mild spoiler photographs towards the end of this post. You cannot deduce any plot development from them however, hence their inclusion)When you think about it, going to watch filming is a pretty strange way to spend your day. In effect, its just watching other people at work. Now I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little confused to find someone standing behind me watching me working for their own pleasure? Or any one of us on the Sherlockology team come to that, but you have to wonder, if the cast and crew of Sherlock feel the same?
Especially when those who are watching have been there all day! Yes they’ve been asked to move over there as standing here was in shot, or over that way as they need this area now for this or that. It starts to rain, they huddle under their umbrellas and those without just got wet. The cast, meanwhile, have umbrellas held over them if it was a brief shower, or sit in the waiting cars/trailers/hotel rooms (delete where applicable). Of course the majority of the crew weren’t that lucky and got wet like everyone else – although the luckiest of all were the camera crew, who had the most enormous umbrella we’d ever seen – but the point is, they were employed to be there in the rain, not enduring it voluntarily.
Whether it be rain, or as it later turned out, riots close by, still people will watch, rehearsal after rehearsal, take after take of the same scene even when it’s without any dialogue and simply cast getting into a car and shutting a door for example. The fact is though, no matter which way you look at it, people in general seem to be fascinated by the process…. and we wont deny, we are too.
Truth be told, not everyone who watches filming is there for the ‘process’, as let’s face it, Sherlock didn’t do too badly on their casting choices in terms of actors likely to attract a female fan base. Benedict, Martin and Rupert certainly have an army of very passionate fans each, and not just restricted to those who watch the filming of Sherlock, but we’ll get on to that later.
There is a drawback to watching something filmed that you love however, and take comfort in this those who are unable to go yourselves due to distance and so are reading this report for the next best thing (and the reason we write them incidentally)… you do sacrifice something in watching the process.



